Sparkling cocktails · Sparkling wine
Tart cranberry and a squeeze of lime set the tone, dry sparkling wine brings a fine fizz, and four white spirits hide quietly underneath. It looks like a spritz and drinks much stronger.
½ oz
vodkae.g. Absolut · Smirnoff · Grey Goose · Ketel One · Belvedere
½ oz
London dry gine.g. Tanqueray · Gordon's · Beefeater · Bombay Sapphire · Sipsmith
½ oz
white rume.g. Bacardi · Havana Club · Plantation · Don Q · Flor de Caña
½ oz
blanco tequilae.g. Olmeca Altos · Patrón · Don Julio · Espolòn · El Jimador
2 oz
cranberry juice
¼ oz
lime juice
3 oz
dry sparkling wine Champagne or another brute.g. Freixenet · Henkell · Rotkäppchen · Mionetto · Martini
Garnish: Lime wheel · Ice: Ice cubes
Harlem Mugger
Tart and fruity with cranberry and lime, dry fizz from the sparkling wine and a clearly boozy backbone.
The Harlem Mugger is a modern American party drink from the same family as the Long Island Iced Tea: several white spirits in small measures, lengthened with juice and a sparkling top. The name refers to Harlem in New York City, but no creator, bar or date is documented, and the name is usually explained as a joke about how hard the drink hits.
What sets it apart from other multi-spirit long drinks is the sparkling wine instead of cola or lemon-lime soda. Combined with cranberry, it pushes the drink toward a Cosmopolitan-style flavor profile, only longer and with bubbles.
The name refers to Harlem in New York and is usually explained as a joke about its strength; no documented origin exists.
Yes, but choose a brut; a sweet prosecco pushes the drink out of balance.
It contains 60 ml of spirits plus sparkling wine, so it is noticeably stronger than a normal highball.
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